Pimp That Snack! has step-by-step instructions for creating your own Rubik’s Cube Cake! Link -via Grow-A-Brain
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Pimp That Snack! has step-by-step instructions for creating your own Rubik’s Cube Cake! Link -via Grow-A-Brain
The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest was recently held during the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. The Leaning Tower Illusion from Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and Elena Gheorghiu won first place. You may think the tower on the right is angled a bit further, but the two photos are identical! See the top ten illusions at the contest site. Link -via Ursi’s Blog
A restaurant situated inside a top security prison in Italy opened just two months ago, and is already so popular that officials are considering opening other branches.
Serenaded by Bruno, a pianist doing life for murder, the clientele eat inside a deconsecrated chapel set behind the 60ft high walls, watch towers, searchlights and security cameras of the daunting 500-year-old Fortezza Medicea, at Volterra near Pisa.
Under the watchful eye of armed prison warders, a 20-strong team of chefs, kitchen hands and waiters prepares 120 covers for diners who have all undergone strict security checks. Tables are booked up weeks in advance.
Link -via Arbroath
Did you ever wonder how Disney World got supplies to each park area without delivery trucks? You never see a garbage truck in Frontierland, either. A former Disney Cast Member explains the tunnel system installed underneath Walt Disney World. http://www.ekday.com/blog/files/8036d653b430ffa276d8767dde659c06-28.html -via Grow-A-Brain
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and Because We Can collaborated to create this coffee table that responds to touch with twinkling LED lights.
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They are normally dim and constant-- the most you'll see in a dark room is a faint glow of twinkling like the night sky. When you set your glass down on the table, however, the table "sees" the motion that induces a slow ripple starting in that location that spreads out to other areas of the table as it dissipates. The overall effect is a bit like touching a pool of water, in that your local disturbance turns into an overall gentle rippling, and eventually settles down.
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Seventeen tons of silver and gold coins have been found in a shipwreck off the British coast. The cache could be worth up to half a billion dollars! Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. made the find, but company spokemen will not give the exact location of the unidentified colonial-era ship. Link -via Simply Left Behind
Mathematicians Pictures is a unique gift shop catering to mathematicians and math geeks. Some greeting cards, t-shirts, and posters are hard for a non-math person to follow, but this American Pi mug should appeal to everyone. Link -via Grow-A-Brain
Photographer and fisherman Corey Arnold has an awesome photo esssay on his experiences as an Alaskan fisherman, considered one of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in America. http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=606&Itemid=92 -via Metafilter
A competitive bodybuilder explains his diet in depth. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Knife Writer (Thanks, Jan!)
(You may need to push "permalink" to hear this over the Deflector game)
Sideshow World is an online museum and archive of the circus and carnival sideshows of the past. You’ll find pictures, stories, and links about performers and exhibits, and daily updates. Link -via the Presurfer
Irene Sendler posed as a nurse and smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw ghetto, saving their lives during the Nazi occupation in World War II. Now at age 97, Sendler is starting to reap the rewards of her actions as Poland recognized her heroism during a ceremony in March. Read her amazing story at Yahoo News. Link -via Scribal Terror
In 1991, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenerry endorsed the triple-star system 40 Eridani as the sun of the planet Vulcan, home of Mr. Spock. Now, NASA is planning a mission called SIM PlanetQuest that will scan 40 Eridani for signs of planets that could sustain life. The primary star, 40 Eridani A, shows the possibility that a planet of mass similar to Earth’s could have formed there. The system is 16 light years from Earth. SIM Planet Quest is scheduled to launch in 2015. Link
Smoky the cat owes his life to the London Fire Department and Reynolds from Random Acts of Reality. The cat was rescued from a house on fire in London and given oxygen and an ambulance ride to the local vetrinary hospital. http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/16/2955025.html -via Cynical-C
Our link seems to be blocked, but you can access the story through Cynical-C. (Thanks, tinfoil!)
Update: Here's the LOLcat version.
The dog beats his owner playing Wii Tennis. Yes, its a setup, but still funny! Push play or go to YouTube. -via http://www.b3ta.com/
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